The FSB Has More Power Now and Other Thoughts…

FSB Building in Moscow

Medvedev just expressed in the last few weeks about this bill and endorsed the expansion of the Federal Security Service (FSB) powers. Now very quickly the Russian parliament passed a government-proposed bill expanding the powers of the Federal Security Service (FSB).

Also the Russian Deputies have now been allowed to boast of the record number of bills passed during this spring session.

As I have been saying that things have kicked back into high gear here in Russia since the Reset between America and Russia was crushed by the powers to be…

It seems like everything in Russia was set on a back burner (so to speak). The agendas were stalled to see if America was sincere about her motives…

The straw that seemed to break the camels back was when the American Administration sent Clinton on a little trip to disrupt issues in Ukraine, Georgia and several other countries. This little jaunt was a deliberate undermining of dealings that Russia had been working on in her own back yard…

Much has been going on quietly behind the scenes as we all watched the reset between America and Russia. Svetlana and I like many people in Russia had big hopes for a better relationship between two old adversaries. Was that too much to ask for? Looks like it was…

Now with the realization that America was not sincere. Mevedev has become a different person. He is still Medvedev, but now you can see something new in his eyes. Medvedev is not like Putin and would never make a great poker player. Putin’s eyes do not give him away but Medvedev’s do…

I said earlier in a post that Medvedev was a touch naive when he went to America this time. I see in his eyes that he learned something from that trip…

Windows to Russia!

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